The Labor enquirer., 1887-03-26
THE Future. {
Professor Werner sisInens The
Eminent Scientist, Before
the Berlin Congress.
What EeIence sd Socialism vim
Do For tho Workers in tho
Corning Years
The Capitalist WI Fail :. Keep tAe
World d Darkness md
Despair.

: &
Despair.
A recent announcement that Edison
has discovered . method Of proddcina
bread from the elements the mselves and
that its details would shortly be an.
nounced that tho cost would be triflina
and that hence poverty would soon be 4
thing Of the past, cslls to mind that col
brsted prophecy of Winwood Reade
which now seems about TO- be literally
fulfilled.
Apropos Of this same matter We note
the following recent remarkable address
Of Professor Werner Siemens before the
late congress Of naturslists Of Berlin is
interesting as giving scientiAc 10 substance
to theories which have been looked
upon heretofore ~ dreams With which
science would have nothing to do.
DR.. iemens cannot be called q
dreamer. He is one Of an illustrious
family whose members have been an
honor to science; he has devoted his
life to facts. and for years has been the
leading spirit in an immense manufac-,
turing establishment. Coming from
such man, q picture Of life 100 wears
from now cannot,bs dismissed with q
smile as to, fantastic for SO rious consid-
Grafton.
Dr.. Siemens, reasoning from the bis.
tory Of tho past, believes that the great
inventions which help man to harness
the forces Of nature will be more fre.
quent and more rapid in maturing than
they have in the past. Within hun
dred years We have brought into use
the steam engine. the locomotive, the
telegraph, the photograph. the perfect
ing press. the telephone and the electric
dynamo. whose possibilities are simply
fabulous. Having achieved so much in
the last hundred years, Dr.. Siemens be-
lieves that we ought to do far moro than
this in the next hundred years. and
give to man kind fully score Of inven.
tions as valuable as those just men
toned.
DR.. Slemens regards each Of these
great Inventions as 20 many tools with
which the man OF the future-or Of the
present for that matter-nav work.
Having more knowledge than our pre-
decessors. and wonderful set Of tools
of which they knew nothing. there is
no reason why we should not achieve
greater things than they.
Besides this he says:
"We are Sociallzing production to.
day. All are woi king for each and each
for all. When science shall invade tho
government and shall take charge of
production, distribution and Transports
ton and shall do these things at cost for
the people there will then be NO ques-
ton but that the workman Of the year
1889 will be able to provide himself
with food, clothing and shelter at an ex-
penditure of labor measured in N INUTRs
where to-day it is measured in hours;
that is to say, instead of working ten
hours day to obtain the necessaries
and some of the luxuries of life. he will
work TEN MINUTES DAY. These genii
of iron and steel which science Is to fur
nish him will do far moro than those
dreamed Of in the Arabian Nights
they will work night and day with
power far beyond that of the steam en-
CINE Of the present, and with an intelli.
gence Of which we at present have NO
concept IN. They will till the ground,
plant the crops, reap the harveets, carry
enorm ous loads to shd fro across the
world, and do all this at cost infinitely
small. Machinery will do in hours the
labor which now requires years from
tn ousands of men,"
In examining in detail the marvels OF
machinery tho professor cited this as q
sample of the perfection already at.
tanned:
"The machinery for the weaving oi
the hair covering for upholstery is go
delicate and almost human in its work.
ings that if the arm that picks up the
hair does not secure it the arm goes
back and trlesI again without any atten
tion from the person running th'
machine.
"In looking over the 6cld I see ne
product necessary to the physical c,m-
fort Of man which the wonderful machin
cry of tie future will not se equal t
making automatically"
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